The CPOstrategy team jetted to the luxurious One Farrer Hotel luxury resort in Singapore for the CIPS Asia ‘Excellence In Procurement And Supply Chain Awards Asia 2026’. It was to be an incredible night…

"When you're standing inside one market, everything looks fine," says Rafael Ramos Meija, Head of Corporate Procurement at Adium. "It's only when you step back and see the region as a whole that the patterns emerge — and with them, the opportunity."

Adium is running with these opportunities, creating an integrated procurement model for LATAM while focusing on resilience. We sat with with Ramos Meija at WPC 2026 to expand on this month's Adium profile in CPOstrategy.

Lu Cheng, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Zip, discusses the company’s exciting launch of Superagents and MCP in the midst of revolutionary procurement transformation

Dheev Arulmani, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, and Chase Macaione, Global Head of Sales at Valdera, discuss how Valdera meets ever-changing challenges in chemical procurement against a backdrop of transformation and disruption

At DPW New York, Sean Sieper, Director within the Indirect Center of Excellence at Ahold Delhaize USA and Jim Rahill, Global Vice President of Sales, Pactum discusses how autonomous negotiation can help procurement teams move beyond recommendations to deliver measurable value

Digital transformation in procurement requires going back to basics and focusing on the foundations

Vel Dhinagaravel, Founder & CEO of Beroe, and Suketu Gandhi, Global Chair at Kearney spoke with CPO Strategy at DPW New York about why procurement must rethink its purpose in the AI era and the launch of their new AI-native decision engine Beroe MAX™ powered by Kearney

Co-Founders of Axiom, Alistair Cane and Aaron Ueckermann, discuss how Axiom is dealing with the ever-present problem of tail spend amidst a procurement transformation

Speaking exclusively to CPOstrategy at DPW New York, leaders at SpendHound explore the changing role of procurement and how to achieve success in a rapidly evolving space

Jeremy Lappin, CEO and Co-Founder, and Janina Insua, Global Head of Sales, at Candex, discuss the art of unlocking user experience in procurement

Ashim Kapai, Head of Procurement and Accounts Payable at Abnormal AI, saw an opportunity to do more than modernise the company’s procurement transformation roadmap - he saw a chance to build a procurement function designed for the AI era. That realisation led to a bold decision: pivot to a platform better aligned with Abnormal’s long-term vision for automation, scalability, and intelligence. Here’s how that decision reshaped the company’s approach to procurement, and why the team successfully executed the transition in just six weeks

On the back of DPW New York 2026, CPOstrategy chats with Herman Knevel, DPW’s CEO, about the success of the latest installment of the world’s biggest procurement technology conference